It Hurts Quotes - Page 2

• People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

  Peter Krause

  Hurt, Mistake, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.

  Herve Villechaize

  Hurt, Dying

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• It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hurt, Mean, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you dont fight back it hurts forever.

  Joel Siegel

  Hurt, Fighting, Forever

  Joel Siegel (2003). “Lessons for Dylan”, PublicAffairs

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• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Spiritual, Sweet

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• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Hurt, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.295, Penguin

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• Sometimes it lasts in love,
  But sometimes it hurts instead.

  Adele

  Hurt, Popular Song, Lasts

  Song: Someone Like You, Album: 21

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• Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Smile, Break Up

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• But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, People, Calm

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.2, Anchor

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• Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Life Sucks, Tipping

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.87, Penguin

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• Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in her frenzy. Little one. She flicked out her tongue and caught him on the hand with its rough tip. He smiled. Then she arched her neck and tried to pull back, but to no avail. What's wrong? I'm stuck. You're... He could not help it;he laughed even though it hurt. The situation was too absurd.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hurt, Hands, Half

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1007, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Giving, Tongue

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• This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Hurt, Tales

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• You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Notebook, Stay Strong

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Pain, Hands

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• The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Hurt, College, Thinking

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.

  Jordin Sparks

  Friendship, Hurt, Brother

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". The Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Hurt, Citizens

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• I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Love You, Dare

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.261, Random House

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• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Thinking

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Pain, Desire

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• It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

  Steven Morrissey

  Hurt, Heart

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